How do I eliminate extra blank pages from a mail merge?

[Charlie in Alaska]

I am wondering why the foolowing problem occurs and how to fix it: When I
complete a merge in Word (2002), the resulting document includes a blank
page in between each actual page. These blank pages do not show on screen,
but the document does get numbered as if they are in the document, and these
blank pages also print, creating a hassle of sorting and often wasting paper.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Check the formatting of the first paragraph in the main document to make
sure that it is not formatted to have a page break before it.

When the merge is executed to a new document, a Next Page Section Break will
be inserted at the end of the page(s) created for each record, so if you
have the first paragraph formatted with a page break before it, that would
amount to two page break commands.

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[Charlie in Alaska]

No, I did check that out, and it is not the cause. It did occur to me that I
can tell the printer to print only the odd pages, but that is a clumbsy fix
and easy to forget to do when printing. Does anyone have a better solution?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Send me such a document so that I can look at it and see what is going on.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

For anyone else interested in this, the main document was set up with
"Different odd and even" headers under the Layout tab of the Page Set up
dialog.

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